Iain: 509 books
Financing Higher Education
Answers from the UK
Language: English
Release Date: August 2, 2004
This topical volume tells the story of the UK debate on financing higher education, illustrating a head-on collision between the economic imperatives of student loans and regulated market forces, and the political imperative of 'free' higher education. In telling the story of the partnership of an...
HMS Victory
First-Rate 1765
Language: English
Release Date: August 17, 2011
HMS Victory is probably the best-known historic ship in the world. A symbol of the Royal Navy’s achievements during the great age of sail, she is based in Portsmouth and seen by tens of thousands of visitors each year.
As is the case for many historic ships, however, there is a surprising...
EU Cohesion Policy in Practice
What Does it Achieve?
Language: English
Release Date: July 20, 2016
EU Cohesion policy, along with support for agriculture and rural development, is one of the main items of EU spending. As such, the performance of the policy has come under increasing scrutiny. Perhaps surprisingly, however, past attempts to assess the effectiveness of the EU’s have proved to be...
Water and the City
Risk, Resilience and Planning for a Sustainable Future
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2013
As a vital human need, water has been absolutely critical to decisions as to where cities originate, how much they grow and the standard of living of the inhabitants. The relationship is complex however; we need both continual availability and protection from its potential impacts. Over recent decades...
Foreign Aid and Emerging Powers
Asian Perspectives on Official Development Assistance
Language: English
Release Date: July 11, 2014
Current debates on emerging powers as foreign aid donors often fail to examine the myriad geopolitical, geoeconomic and geocultural tensions that influence policies of Official Development Assistance (ODA).
This book advocates a regional geopolitical approach to explaining donor-donor relationships...
by Iain M. Banks
Language: English
Release Date: August 1, 2001
Language: English
Release Date: August 1, 2001
The Twin Novae battle had been one of the last of the Idiran war, and one of the most horrific: desperate to avert their inevitable defeat, the Idirans had induced not one but two suns to explode, snuffing out worlds and biospheres teeming with sentient life. They were attacks of incredible proportion...
Chains of Finance
How Investment Management is Shaped
Language: English
Release Date: June 23, 2017
Investment is no longer a matter of individual savers directly choosing which shares or bonds to buy. Rather, most of their money flows through a 'chain': an often extended sequence of intermediaries. What goes on in that chain is of huge importance: The world's investment managers, who are now almost...
Drink
A Cultural History of Alcohol
Language: English
Release Date: July 3, 2008
A spirited look at the history of alcohol, from the dawn of civilization to the modern day
Alcohol is a fundamental part of Western culture. We have been drinking as long as we have been human, and for better or worse, alcohol has shaped our civilization. Drink investigates the history of this...
The Postcolonial Museum
The Arts of Memory and the Pressures of History
Language: English
Release Date: February 17, 2016
This book examines how we can conceive of a ’postcolonial museum’ in the contemporary epoch of mass migrations, the internet and digital technologies. The authors consider the museum space, practices and institutions in the light of repressed histories, sounds, voices, images, memories, bodies,...
by Iain Henderson
Language: English
Release Date: January 31, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: January 31, 2017
Packed with practical information and offering a solid foundation in HRM theory, Human Resource Management for MBA and Business Masters covers all the topics MBA students need to know in a concise, accessible way. One of the only texts available for HR non-specialist students doing a Masters or MBA,...
Threat Forecasting
Leveraging Big Data for Predictive Analysis
Language: English
Release Date: May 17, 2016
Drawing upon years of practical experience and using numerous examples and illustrative case studies, Threat Forecasting: Leveraging Big Data for Predictive Analysis discusses important topics, including the danger of using historic data as the basis for predicting future breaches, how to use security...
by Roy G. Perkins, Iain Macintosh
Language: English
Release Date: November 15, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: November 15, 2012
The Waverley Route ran from Edinburgh, through the Scottish Borders, to Carlisle. Opening in 1862, the line was closed in 1969 as a result of the Beeching Report; feelings ran so high when it closed that there were protests which delayed the last passenger service on the line by two hours, led to...
by Helen Powell, Jonathan Hardy, Iain Macrury
Language: English
Release Date: February 28, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: February 28, 2018
The Advertising Handbook provides a critical introduction to advertising and marketing practices today. Contributions from leading international scholars and practitioners offer extended coverage of the contemporary shifts and pressures reshaping the marketing communications (or advertising and marketing)...
Information Warfare in Business
Strategies of Control and Resistance in the Network Society
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2004
Information Warfare in Business provides a significant and interesting perspective on the concept of the network organization. It illustrates the relations between information technology and organization, and in particular, between business organizations and the recent revolution in military affairs...